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Originally Posted by DNSB
I can just see a site selling to North Americans that displayed the price including taxes. Not sure how many people would be happy with giving their location down to the street address before being able to see the price.
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That's why sites that properly sell globally have you select country / currency / language*.
Some big companies solve it by having separate sites for regions or countries. Like Amazon has Marketplaces.
However Amazon UK by default shows prices including UK VAT. But since Brexit when Irish customers log in the prices change (They probably changed before Brexit when various VAT rules changed). Because UK sellers should not charge VAT on exports. Small UK sellers then show a VAT exclusive price and the VAT is charged at customs in the EU. But any UK seller can register so that they collect the VAT rate at customer destination and show correct price to customer logged in, and then the VAT is prepaid (and sent to that country in bulk) and parcel is not held at customs waiting for VAT. Some Chinese sellers are now doing this. Brexit only exists so the UK can ignore EU banking & money laundering laws, especially via Channel Is & Isle of Man which are not in UK so exempt to UK banking /moneylaundering laws like all British Overseas Territories. The NI Protocol means NI stays in EU customs union and single market, so NI can easily do import/export with EU and Ireland (no border in Ireland), but adds extra paperwork to/from GB. UK-GB exports down 10% to 90% depending on sector, NI-GB exports are 14% up.
There is NO Irish Marketplace on Amazon: Kindle owners can have ALL Kindles either notionally in USA or UK (affects what books are available, but Irish VAT charged). Irish Customers can use UK, USA or German (in English) marketplaces for other products. But not everything ships and search doesn't show, not till product selected or sometimes at checkout do you know proper shipping price or if it ships at all. UK Amazon will show euros at checkout but only at Amazon's higher than my credit card exchange rate, so I pay in Stg.
Kindles can be registered on German market place for a few countries as well as Germany, but not Ireland, even though site is in English, titles in English, German site charges Irish VAT on other items etc.
(* As an aside it is totally stupid and abusive to have a flag to select language. How does that work for Malta, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Wales, Switzerland?)